Lexington and Newtown Turnpike Company records
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Lexington and Newtown Turnpike Company records
- Date
- 1848-1901
- Extent
- 0.29 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- Business records--Kentucky.
- Toll roads--Kentucky.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged chronologically.
- Preferred Citation
- 1M73M30: [identification of item], Lexington and Newtown Turnpike Company, 1848-1901, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- The Lexington and Newtown Turnpike Company constructed a turnpike from Lexington to Newtown in Scott County, Kentucky.
- Scope and Content
- The Lexington and Newtown Turnpike Company records comprise a stock book, treasurer's book, and a ledger, documenting the company's investors, budgets and expenses, and the board of managers' meetings. The stock book consists of an inventory of the company’s stockholders and a record of the certificates they owned. The treasurer's book contains financial transactions for the turnpike company. The book also includes a printed copy of the "1848 Act for the benefit of the Maysville and Mount Sterling Turnpike Road laid in June 1870" and a handwritten contract. The ledger book records minutes from the meetings of the turnpike company board of managers as well as itemized budgets and expenditures for specific projects. The records were kept by the presidents of the company, such as David Castleman, E. S. Offrett, and A. J Gorham as well as company secretary D. S. Coleman and chairman E. N. Offrett.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections
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